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Nixon comes up with a plan to greatly expand domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies.
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Five men were arrested trying to plant listening devices at the National Democratic Part Headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington DC.
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FBI establishes link between republican party and Watergate burglers.
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Nixon Gets re-elected with massive mandate. defeating McGovern.
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Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, testified in congress that since 1971 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in the White House Oval Office.
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House Judiciary Committee passes three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice.
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Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the Presidency.